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Oligarchs risk unleashing new Ukraine tensions

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UKRAINE

This follows several days of growing tensions between Kyiv and the oligarch over the control of two energy companies. (Two deputy governors, Hennadiy Korban and Svyatoslav…

Kazakhstan will reassure investors as reforms unfold

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KAZAKHSTAN

The 'new deal' programme includes both short- and long-term reforms aimed at redressing the main failings of the Nazarbayev era. The Tokayev administration is pledging to launch…

Crimea will survive but not thrive on Moscow subsidies

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UKRAINE/RUSSIA

The Russian government has clamped down on dissent while injecting large subsidies into Crimea since seizing the territory in 2014. The costs of this financial support have…

Geopolitics put Russia-Turkey economic ties at risk

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RUSSIA/TURKEY

In retaliation, Moscow has imposed economic sanctions on Ankara, yesterday halting the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project. Russia says it has proof that Turkish…

Nuclear governance may slide from the policy agenda

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INTERNATIONAL

Post-NSS 2016 nuclear governance.

Border will strain US-Mexican ties as elections near

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US/MEXICO

The meeting, held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, followed discussion of the same issues by numerous government officials at the bilateral…

Northern Syria's endgame will erode Kurdish autonomy

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SYRIA

This follows a controversy after leaked comments from security sources that the operation was “over”. Fighting continues on the ground, principally small-scale skirmishes and…

Angolan privatisation will test Lourenco reform agenda

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ANGOLA

Lourenco’s government launched in August its flagship Privatisation Programme (PROPRIV), with 195 companies and assets set to be either fully or partially sold. With a legal…

Iraqi Kurdish militias could return to fraught Kirkuk

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IRAQ

Iraqi security forces took control of Kirkuk following a controversial independence referendum in September 2017. Since then, security in the area has deteriorated, with an…

Coca poses balancing act for Bolivia’s Arce

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BOLIVIA

Both the overturning of former President Evo Morales’s government in late 2019 and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 undermined the ability of the authorities to…